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Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:59:54 -0500hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.5By: Brad Jaegerhttp://www.dystel.com/2010/08/writing-and-drinking-same-rules-apply/comment-page-1/#comment-18878
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:42:48 +0000http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/08/writing-and-drinking-same-rules-apply/#comment-18878I have resisted the temptation to drink while writing. It's not always easy, but I'd rather not be dependent on a vice in order to get any meaningful work done — I predict far too much harm would come to myself in the end if I went that route.

That being said, I know plenty who drink as they write: some only a glass of wine, others, copious amounts of whiskey.

Whatever works, I suppose.

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Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:37:43 +0000http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/08/writing-and-drinking-same-rules-apply/#comment-18847One evening after more than a couple of Margaritas, I sat down to write the next Great American Novel. I typed away like a madwoman. By the wee hours of the morning I had an epiphany, a moment of lucidity – this was going to be my one time Harper Lee moment! I finally ran out of steam in the morning and went to bed. When I woke up in the afternoon, I remembered the night before. I got up eager to read my chef-d'oeuvre. This is what the pages of my novel looked like:

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Translation: Yep! This is what my masterpiece looked like!!!

Somehow, when I sat down to type, I placed my fingers one key over to the right from where they should have been.